Intermittent renewable energy sources need 3x to 5x their nameplate capacity and enough storage to make them a stable 24/7/365 energy source. Anything less will require natural gas plants for on demand load following -- the most expensive and least efficient use of those power plants.
In your language, explaining the consequences of your energy vision is "falsely stating your position." In English, it's called stating the truth that someone is not even trying hard to conceal.
I have posted a number of times that concentrating solar power is price competitive with coal already - in the desert southwest where there are very few cloudy days and there are more peak sun hours per day. So let's put solar where it makes sense and use the proper amount of storage so renewable energy is a stable base power source and not an intermittent source that the grid has to scramble to accommodate.
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“We are already in this phase change and are very close to grid parity,” Shawn Qu, chief executive officer of Canadian Solar Inc. (CSIQ), said in an interview. “In many markets, solar is already competitive with peak electricity prices, such as in California and Japan.”
Chinese companies such as JA Solar Holdings Ltd., Canadian Solar and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. are making panels cheaper, fueled by better cell technology and more streamlined manufacturing processes. That’s making solar economical in more places and will put it in competition with coal, without subsidies, in the coming years, New Energy Finance said.
“The most powerful driver in our industry is the relentless reduction of cost,” Michael Liebreich, chief executive officer of New Energy Finance, said at the company’s annual conference in New York yesterday. “In a decade the cost of solar projects is going to halve again.”
http://climateprogress.org/2011/04/06/april-6-news-solar-costs-may-already-rival-coal-the-surprisingly-long-history-of-green-energy/----------------------------------------------------------------------
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As the price of electricity continues to rise, and solar costs continue to fall, the moment where solar will cost the same as other forms of electric generation is fast approaching. However, analysts disagree on when that day will come.
Piper Jaffray & Co. Analyst Principal and Senior Research Analyst Ahmar Zaman recently told The Wall Street Transit that solar will reach grid parity—the point when solar will cost the same as fossil fuel—in most markets by 2015.
“I think that’s relatively optimistic compared to our analysis,” said Matt Feinstein, an analyst with Lux Research, Inc. “We see closer to 2020.”
Feinstein agreed with Zaman that some markets, like Hawaii and California, are likely to reach grid parity as early as 2015—particularly California. “
A market like Hawaii is already at grid parity. Countries in Europe, we see closer to 2020. Asia after 2020,” said Feinstein.
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Hawaii is already at grid parity. California will be by 2015, Europe by 2020 and Asia after 2020.
Your fossil fuel loving days are nearly over. And coal, oil and natural gas haven't even been hit with the bill for their deadly toxic pollution that the rest of us are graciously paying for them in increased medical bills, hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks, and thousands of heart attacks each and every year. One of these days, your favorites -the fossil fuels- will have to start paying for all the costs of their use, then there will be no question about which energy source is cheaper (it won't be fossil fuels).